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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1141, 18 October 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

There are no strawberries or oysters in Africa. Hence religion is at a very low ebb in that country. — ' Whitehall Times.' When a boy sees a nice, round, smooth stone lying on the ground, he always thinks it rather mean that there isn't a yellow dog in the vicinity. — ' Uncle Sam.' A Chicago girl who wears number eights has been converted by reading a tract entitled " How Beautiful are the feet of the Righteous." "My soul's at tho gate," is the title of a new piece of lnusio. Ue had better be careful, or he may find the old man's sole at the gate, too, some of these fine oveniugs. A young lady iu California threatened to get a tlivoroe on the novel ground of "protracted festivities." She said her husband celebrated his marriage by getting drunk, and kept up the festival three ■weeks ! They carry economy of labor and material to a considerable height in America. This beats phonetic printing : — 2 lovers sat beneath the shade, And 1 un2 the other said : How 11 8 that you be9 Hast smiled upon this suit of mine ! If 5 a heart it palps for you — Thy voice is mu6 melody — 'Tis 7 to be thy loved 1, 2— Say Oy nymph, wilt marry me 'f Then lisped she soft, " Why 13ly !" Can it be said of this bard that "he lisped in numbers, for the numbers came "r"